"Jack Hanley brought big-league thinking to a nonprofit industry, " says Douglas Tieman, head of the Caron Foundation, a Pennsylvania treatment center.

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The ad, for the Topsy Foundation, a South African group that delivers HIV treatment, follows three months of the life of a patient with AIDS, rewinding her life from a time during which she is looks healthy and happy and back until when she was emaciated and sick — back until when she first takes anti-retroviral pills.

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The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did not reveal, at the time, that some funding came from a group called the Foundation for Lung Cancer, Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment.

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In a Los Angeles-filed federal court complaint that reads like a Hollywood treatment for a dark comedy, the SEC charged Pacific Asian Atlantic Foundation (PAAF) and its president, Samuel M.

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The Gates Foundation is notable for its willingness to sponsor research into better means of prevention and treatment.

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He recently launched The Louis Farrakhan Prostate Cancer Foundation as part of an effort to help those with no health care insurance get the treatment they need.

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Dr. Bess Dawson-Hughes, president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, counters that it would be a mistake to exclude all women with osteopenia from treatment, since most fractures occur in this group.

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Specifically, Fisher House Foundation provides free hotel rooms to wounded, injured, and ill military men and women who are undergoing treatment at a military or VA medical center and to attend authorized events.

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Under the program, Fisher House Foundation provides free airline tickets to wounded, injured, and ill military men and women who are undergoing treatment at a military or VA medical center and to attend authorized events.

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